Koha Upgrades
Koha 18.05 Upgrade Notes and Webinars
Important Links
Overview Blog Posts and Videos
- Self Check-in Module
- Serials Module Updates
- Adding the Ability to Configure Catalog Details in Acquisitions in 18.05
- Updates to the Acquisitions Module 18.05
- Merging Patrons in Koha 18.05
Recorded Webinar Sessions
Overview Webinars
OPAC
Technical Services
Administration & Reports
Patrons & Circulation
Q & A from Upgrade Webinars
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OPAC
- [19287] Add ability to mark an item ‘Lost’ from ‘Holds to pull’ list
- [11976] Add column settings + new column “Publication date” to the subscription table that staff can determine which columns should be shown by default
- [15794] Add emoji picker to tag entry in OPAC
- [18083] Don’t show ‘library’ selection on popular titles page for single-branch libraries
- [18313] Remove Delicious icon from OPAC social network links
- [19573] Link to make a new list in masthead in OPAC only appears / works if no other list already exists
- [19708] Printing code improvements in opac-basket.tt
- [19989] opac-memberentry.pl has a FIXME that can be fixed
- [20155] Improve readability of OPAC header language menu
- [20181] Allow plugins to add CSS and Javascript to OPAC
- [20400] Add routing list tab to the patron account in OPAC
- [20432] Add black version of small Koha logo for use in the OPAC
- [20497] LibraryThing: always use https instead of http
- [18915] Creating a checkout note (patron note) sends an incomplete email message
- [18975] Wrong CSRF token when emailing cart contents
- [19496] Patron notes about item does not get emailed as indicated
- [19808] Reviews from deleted patrons make few scripts to explode
- [19843] reviews.datereviewed is not set
- [19911] Passwords displayed to user during self-registration are not HTML-encoded
- [19913] Embedded HTML5 videos are broken
- [19975] Tag cloud searching does not working
- [19978] Fix ITEMTYPECAT feature for grouping item types for search
- [20218] Tracklinks fails when URL has special characters
- [20286] Subscribing to a search via rss goes to an empty page
- [20363] Privacy management shows misleading “No reading history to delete”
- [20479] Superlibrarians cannot log into opac
Course Reserves
- [15378] Remove ‘lost’ items from course reserves
- [19230] Warn when deleting a course in course reserves
Patrons
- [9302] Add ability to merge patron records
- [18626] Add ability to track cardnumber changes for patrons
- [19471] Show creation date in patron restrictions list
- [19801] Display messages on user details page as well as on check out page
- [19988] Change ‘sex’ to ‘gender’
- [20100] A non-superlibrarian should not be able to add superlibrarian privileges
- [20516] Show patron’s library in pending discharges table
- [20524] Make columns of pending discharges table sortable
- [20526] Show and sort by date of request in pending discharges table
- [19488] Add borrowernumber to brief info on patron details pages in staff client
Holds
- [19287] Add ability to mark an item ‘Lost’ from ‘Holds to pull’ list
- [18382] action_logs entry for module HOLDS, action SUSPEND is spammy
- [18474] Placing multiple holds from results breaks when patron is searched for
- [20167] Item hold is set to bibliographic hold when changing pickup location
- [11512] Only allow to override maximum number of holds from staff as other overrides would never be filled
- [19533] Hold pulldown for itemtype is empty if hold placement needs override
- [19972] Holds to pull should honor syspref “item-level_itypes”
- [20637] Holds to pull: filter shows two itypes on the same line if a biblio has two items of a different type
- [20707] Permissions for circ/ysearch.pl override specific page level permissions and delete sessions improperly
- [19494] Add reservedate to Holds awaiting pickup
- [19769] ‘Pickup library is different’ message does not display library branch name when placing hold
- [20724] ReservesNeedReturns syspref breaks “Holds awaiting pickup”
Cataloging
- [9701] Configure default indicators
- [11046] Better handling of uncertain years for publicationyear/copyrightdate
- [18417] Advanced Editor – Rancor – add shortcuts for copyright symbols (C) (P)
- [18878] Improve item form display / labels too far from input fields
- [18904] Advanced editor – Rancor – Add authority support
- [19267] Advanced Editor – Rancor – Add warning before leaving page if there are unsaved modifications
- [19538] Advanced editor – Rancor – Move syspref from labs to cataloging and remove experimental note
- [16427] Direct link to authority records missing in staff detail view (MARC21 6xx)
- [18198] MARC21: Further improve handling of 5XX$u in GetMarcNotes
- [19939] Move cataloging Z39.50 results actions into menu
Circulation
- [16735] Replace existing library search groups functionality with the new hierarchical groups system
- [15752] Automatically switch from circulation to new patron when a cardnumber is scanned during circulation
- [15492] Stand alone self check-in tool
- [11210] Allow partial writeoff
- [18786] Add ability to create custom payment types
- [18790] Add ability to void payments
- [18816] Make CataloguingLog work in production by preventing circulation from spamming the log
- [20343] Show number of checkouts by itemtype in circulation.pl
- [19494] Add reservedate to Holds awaiting pickup
- [19752] Improve authentication response in offline_circ/service.pl
- [19804] Suspension calculation doesn’t honor ‘Suspension charging interval’
- [19831] Turn on EnhancedMessagingPreferences by default for new installations
- [20322] Circulation page layout and design update
- [2696] Fine payments should show what was paid for
- [4319] waiting and in transit items cannot be reserved
- [19204] Fines in days restriction calculation is not taking calendar into account
- [19444] Automatic renewal script should not auto-renew if a patron’s record has expired
- [20562] issue_id is not stored in accountlines for rental fees
Acquisitions
- [19289] Allow configuration of the fields on the ‘Catalog details’ form in the acquisition baskets
- [10032] Uncertain prices hide ‘close basket’ without explanation
- [17182] Allow Keyword to MARC mapping for acquisitions searches (subtitle)
- [17457] Use SearchWithISBNVariations in acquisition advanced search (histsearch.pl)
- [19479] Price display on a basketgroup
- [18593] Suggestions aren’t updated when one biblio is merged with another
- [19030] Link order <-> subscription is lost when an order is edited
- [19694] Edited shipping cost in invoice doesn’t save
- [20303] Receive order fails if no “authorised_by” value
- [20426] Can’t import all titles from a stage file with default values
- [3841] Add a Default ACQ framework
Serials
- [7910] Batch renewal of subscriptions
- [18327] Add the ability to set the received date to today on multi receiving serials
- [18426] Subscriptions batch editing
Reports
- [9573] Ability to download items lost report
- [9634] Allow for parameters re-use on SQL reports
- [11317] Add a way to access files from the intranet
- [13445] Clean up options for scheduled reports, remove URL, add HTML and Text/TSV
- [16782] Display JSON report URL in staff client report interface
- [19233] Add ability to send itemnumbers in report results to batch modification
- [19664] Reports sidebar menu should match list of reports on reports home page
- [19716] Add option to send header line for CSV output with runreport.pl
- [19856] Improve styling of reports sidebar to match tools sidebar
- [19957] Allow continued editing after saving a report
- [20345] Put saved report keyword search form on reports home
- [20350] Add column configuration to table of saved reports
Staff Client
- [19488] Add borrowernumber to brief info on patron details pages in staff client
- [19806] Add class to items.itemnotes_nonpublic
- [19953] Add column for invoice in acquisition details tab
- [20291] Add a StaffLoginInstructions system preference to add text to the staff client login box
- [20404] Extended patron attributes should always be on
Tools
- [19554] The inventory table should jump to detail instead of MARCdetail
- [19584] Inventory: Trivial interface improvements
- [19585] Inventory: Allow additional separators in a barcode file
- [19837] Add multiple patrons to a list by cardnumber
- [20081] Enable uploaded pdfs to be viewed inline
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